, we constructed a unique data set of family trees and business groups for nearly 100 of the largest business families in … Thailand. We find a strong positive association between family size and family involvement in the ownership and control of the … family business. The sons of the founders play a central role in both ownership and board membership, especially when the …

. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is typically ignored in macroeconomic models. In this chapter, we argue … that family economics should be an integral part of macroeconomics, and that accounting for the family leads to new answers … fluctuations, and argue that changes in family structure in recent decades have important repercussions for the determination of …

others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra-family …

breastfeeding on child disability using data from the National Survey of Family Growth merged to the National Health Interview … order to account for family-level unobservable confounders and employ multiple specifications including a dynamic model that …

wives in the United States in a family context. Earlier research by Baker and Benjamin (1997) posits a family investment … family with liquidity during this period. Consistent with this model, they find for Canada that immigrant wives work longer …

in life. But the underlying neolocal family formation behavior was the same in both colonial North America and the areas …

"family or career,? while the second, graduating from 1945 to the early 1960s, opted for family and employment serially - that … is, "family then job." The third, graduating since 1980 in a climate of greater gender equality, is attempting both … "family and career, " with mixed results and considerable frustration. This paper assesses the reasons for the changing set of …

This paper examines U.S. family exchange and support, its levels and trends. The paper points out the importance of … demographics and geographic mobility in affecting the amount and form of family exchange. It then considers family economic … family altruism and risk sharing. The paper paints a very pessimistic picture. Demographic, geographic, and economic …

The practice of adopting adults, even if one has biological children, makes Japanese family firms unusually competitive …. Our nearly population-wide panel of postwar listed nonfinancial firms shows inherited family firms more important in … outperform non-family firms. Using family structure variables as instruments, we find adopted heirs "causing" elevated …